Sunday, January 27, 2013
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Manny Pacquiao knocked-out
Pacquiao said afterwards that he would not retire but the result wrecks the bargaining power that Bob Arum, his promoter, had in negotiations with Mayweather. Talks over a contract match Pacquiao with the undefeated American welterweight have stalled several times over the past three years.
Pacquiao’s defeat is likely to be named fight of the year after the two men went toe to toe in a thrilling encounter. Having gone the distance in each of their previous three encounters, producing two controversial points victories for Pacquiao and a drawn bout, both men had promised to seek a decisive finish. They were as good as their word.
Pacquiao went down in the third round but then floored Márquez in the fifth. The pair continued to trade blows until Pacquiao walked into an overhand right late in the sixth and crashed face-first to the floor.
The referee, Kenny Bayless, waved the fight to an end as Márquez celebrated and the sold-out crowd at the MGM erupted. Pacquiao was down for about two minutes before his handlers helped him to his feet.
“I threw a perfect punch,” Márquez said. “I knew Manny could knock me out at any time. I felt he was coming to knock me out the last three rounds and I knew he was going to be wide open.”
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Chinese passport
The Philippines said Wednesday it would refuse to stamp Chinese passports containing a map showing most of the China South Sea as belonging to China, as it stepped up protests over the controversial move.
The new passports have provoked angry reactions from around the region, with Vietnam, Taiwan and India all expressing their objections amid an ongoing row over Beijing's territorial claims.
The Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that immigration personnel would stamp "a separate visa application form" instead of the Chinese passport.
"Through this action, the Philippines reinforces its protest against China's excessive claim over almost the entire South China Sea," the department said.
Stamping the Chinese passport could be "misconstrued" as legitimising China's claim over vast parts of the South China Sea, which are also claimed in part by the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan.
President Benigno Aquino's spokesman also said Wednesday the Philippines welcomed a recent US State Department statement that it planned to raise concerns over the new Chinese passports with China.
Last week, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario sent Beijing a formal protest letter, calling the passport maps "an excessive declaration of maritime space in violation of international law".
Foreign governments became aware this month that China had begun issuing passports with maps showing a "nine-dash line" that runs almost to the Philippine and Malaysian coasts.
Vietnam has also refused to stamp the passports while India, angered that the map claims Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai China as Chinese territory, is stamping its own map on visas given to Chinese visitors.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
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